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Denis Diderot1713–1784

We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

Denis Diderot on emotion

Pensées philosophiques (1746), No. 1, as translated in Otis Fellows, Diderot (1977), p. 39

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